round-up: 9/12
updates, quotations, a gift guide, tweets, etc.
Happy Monday, folks!
I have a lot random stuff for you today.
In summary:
Housekeeping
Life updates
Gift guide
Quotations
Tweets
It’s quite the hodge-podge, & not at all intellectual, & very long—so open this email in a new window if you want to make it to the end.
Let’s go!
Housekeeping:
I have a new poem out!
grateful to have a hybrid poem out in one of the coolest journals. tysm @avelvetgiant 💘 avelvetgiant.com/despy-boutris
& another!
grateful to have "ars poetica," first published in ploughshares, republished in the lake today ❤️
read it here:
& I was a finalist for the National Poetry Series.
& also:
The Queen has died. Very sad or whatever. I’m not British so I don’t really get it, but this conspiracy theory in reference to The Royals™ never fails to amuse me.
This is a great interview with Rosie O’Donnell. I love her so much. She is one of my roots.
Love letters:
Thank you to everyone who’s nice to me on Twitter. I love you so much.
"& I am just a forest / burning long & red"
@itsdbouts "Self-Portrait with Zoloft and Fruit" #BCPfam
Verse Daily @versedailypoems
🗣shout-out to the winners and the finalists and especially to #BCPfam @lesannsai & @itsdbouts!! we see you there! congrats! 😍
ANNOUNCING THE 2022 NATIONAL POETRY SERIES COMPETITION WINNERS & FINALISTS nationalpoetryseries.org/announcing-the…
AlphabetBox.com Inaugural Featured Writer Despy Boutris @itsdbouts also has work featured at The Lake thelakepoetry.co.uk/poetry/despy-b…
Congratulations, Despy!
#creativewriting #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writers #fiction @TejaswineeRC @SamuelSamba10
Despy Boutris @itsdbouts
"Self-Portrait with Zoloft and Fruit" by Despy Boutris from THE CINCINNATI REVIEW versedaily.org/2022/selfportr… via @versedailypoems
ISSUE 8 IS LIVE! ❣️featuring work by @SiennaXLiu @itsdbouts @thnxmina @antmenismagic @pparallell Suzanne Highland, Socorro de Luca, nicole v basta & an interview with @mooncake !! illustrations by @witchpuppy . read/listen/look here: avelvetgiant.com
@natallman “There’s a snake on this trail… / Just googled brown snake with white diamonds on its back / Just googled is it venomous / Just googled if you hit one with a stick will its family come after you / Just googled signs I’m having an aneurysm”
-@itsdbouts, from "ars poetica”
Life, lately:
What else?
I’ve been updating my marketplace with fun handmade stuff, so here’s a mini gift guide (maybe for yourself?).
(Apologies for the plug. I have bills to pay.)
For the reader in your life:
For the dyke in your life:
For your trans BFF:
For the feminist:
For your boyfriend:
Quotations:
To me, if you don’t stand up against the fascism that is occurring here in our nation, under our nose, what good are you? Every historian is saying, “We’re on the precipice of disaster.”
-Rosie O’Donnell
& from Kirsten Ihns’ sundaey (a book that’s difficult to quote from, though I’ve underlined many lines):
i think i’d like to be a complex
on the porches of my
sensation
i can’t ever be in the land
scape
can only go with my sight
i wanted to feel bodily and in the land
not somehow beside it
Tweets:
hate a “spiders technically arent bugs” guy. ur a damn fool. anything can be a bug if the vibe is right. giraffes with their little antennae? tall ass bug. crabs are just pinchy little sea bugs. frogs? snails? pigeons? thats all bugs baby
Nations, everyone in England is distracted. It’s the perfect time to get your stuff back from the British Museum.
Being a single, childless woman in her 30's is terrible.
All I ever do is exactly what I want, all the time.
what do u mean u won't dress me in lingerie and take low res flash photographs of me in a forest at night
Bored by critiquing non-fat actors playing fat characters in degrading ways. Here's a thread of fat media that depicts fat characters and performers in interesting ways: 🧵
I’m not emotional about the queen one way or the other. But I’m shocked by how many people think the Potato Famine was due to crop failure and don’t know the English EXPORTED food from Ireland to England during that time - enough food to feed all the Irish who died #irishtwitter
Please be respectful when talking about the Queen. She was a head of state, a monarch, a mother to multiple pedophiles and most importantly a devoted cousin to her husband
Today is a reminder of how hilariously disorienting Twitter can be. An endless stream of overwrought tributes to a monarch, jokes about her death & then random brand tweets like "On behalf of the entire Weber Grill family, we solemnly lay down our tongs in her majesty's memory."
If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star.
Today is a reminder of how things like ‘decorum’ help white supremacy be cultural-not just systemic.
Decorum will silence people from telling the truth because it’s “impolite.”
Meanwhile, it’s not impolite to ask the colonized to mourn the chief symbol of their colonization?
if you're not "comfortable" making fun of the queen it's because you were socialized to give deference to and never question people with unchecked power: the monarchy. the police. the military. the state. recognize how dangerous that is and break it!
My boss just gave me a "quiet promotion": I have many more responsibilities but my job title and pay stayed the same
On behalf of Native Twitter, I would like to extend my congratulations to Irish Twitter on this amazing day.
They were at Treetops Hotel in Kenya's Aberdare National Park. Nine months later, hundreds of freedom fighters would hide from British troops in the forest below. In the next eight years, 1.5 million Kenyans would be incarcerated, starved, tortured, in concentration camps.
Reuters @Reuters
This is an excellent day to talk about how damaging the cleansing of history is.
A lot of historic context would make today more understandable without just assuming people are being mean to Queen Elizabeth.
That colonial past is right there.
Queen Elizabeth had an estimated net worth of $500,000,000 plus holdings and estates worth an about $25,000,000,000, in 2019.
This includes Buckingham Palace, worth over $1 billion, and Balmoral Castle, worth nearly $70 million.
The average UK citizen makes about $43,300.
The queen died and the Irish are already on it lol
EdTheRed @EdwinTheRedwin
Inshallah the Egyptian national museums will steal her casket and put it on display 🙌🏼🙏🏽
The Royal Family @RoyalFamily
i feel like this is a good time to remind everyone of this little old scottish lady who was interviewed when margaret thatcher died
"i'd put a stake through her heart and garlic 'round her neck to make sure she never comes back"
